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Firefox 20.0 Customized and Composer

  • May 1, 2013
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Hi all,

I'm relatively new to Composer and have successfully customized, packaged, and deployed Google Chrome without any issues. Works great. However, when I perform the same steps (outlined below) in effort to customize and deploy Firefox 20.0, it only deploys the application without any customizations. I'm at a little bit of a loss and unsure how to proceed. I've read plenty of discussions on Firefox and it appears to be a little bit moody.

-On a clean base image, I downloaded Firefox 20 direct from Mozilla's website.
-Opened Composer, started snapshot
-Installed Firefox and customized home page and tab settings
-Quit Firefox
-Completed Composer snapshot
-Built out .DMG
-Added to Casper Admin
-Enabled FEU and FUT
-Deployed via Casper Remote and ensured FEU and FUT were still enabled.
-Application installed properly, custom preferences did not set

Any help is appreciated!

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    • cstout
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    • Employee
    • May 1, 2013

    Apparently, if you use Composer on an account that matches the administrative account it is being deployed to then there is some sort of break in communication. I created a new admin account on my clean, base image machine and performed all the steps outlined above again. (I removed Firefox.app, .plist, and preferences file.) Deployed it on a test machine and there it was, customized just the way I needed it. Very peculiar issue.

    The remaining follow-up question I have is this: When the application is deployed, at first launch I received the "This application was downloaded from the Internet."

    Is there anyway to prevent this message from appearing? I ran the application several times on the Mac I used to capture it in an effort to avoid this message, but I received it regardless.

    Thank you!

    daz_wallace
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    • daz_wallace
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    • May 2, 2013

    That would be Mac OS X's Quarantine kicking in.

    You'd need to strip out the X-attribute for Quarantine on the Firefox.app bundle.

    I can't remember it off my head but the command can be found with a quick google

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    • Nix4Life
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    • May 2, 2013

    just had to do this .

    sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /path/to/application.ap

    ie:

    sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Firefox.app

    hth

    LS

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    • Kumarasinghe
    • Contributor
    • May 3, 2013
    The remaining follow-up question I have is this: When the application is deployed, at first launch I received the "This application was downloaded from the Internet." Is there anyway to prevent this message from appearing? I ran the application several times on the Mac I used to capture it in an effort to avoid this message, but I received it regardless.

    Yes.

    You have to make the root user as the application owner

    1) Click on /Applications folder in Composer contents pane to highlight it.
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    2) Then click on Permissions icon.
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    3) Select "Apply Owner to Applications and All Enclosed Items".
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    Then create the package and see if it fixes your problem.

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